| Names: | Born: Thomas Cowperthwaite Eakins
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| | Dates: | 1844, 25 July - 1916, 25 June | | Born: | US, PA, Philadelphia | | Died: | US, PA, Philadelphia | | Active: | US | | Gender: | Male |
American painter, sculptor and photographer.Preparing biographies
Readings on, or by, individual photographers
Danly, Susan & Leibold, Cheryl, 1994, Eakins and the Photograph: Works by Thomas Eakins and His Circle in the Collection of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, (Washington D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press; Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts) [Δ]
Hendricks, Gordon, 1972, The Photographs of Thomas Eakins, (New York: Grossman Publishers) [Δ]
Sewell, David (ed.), 2001, Thomas Eakins, (Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press) [Δ]
Weinberg, H. Barbara, 1994, ‘Thomas Eakins and The Metropolitan Museum of Art‘, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, vol.52, no.3 (Winter, 1994-95) [Δ]
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Family history
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 | Thomas Eakins: Artist studies - Académies |
|  | Thomas Eakins: The Swimming Hole |
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All photographs by this photographer
| Getty Research, Los Angeles, USA has an ULAN (Union List of Artists Names Online) entry for this photographer. This is useful for checking names and they frequently provide a brief biography. | | Go to website | Grove Art Online (www.groveart.com) has a biography of this artist.
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Thomas Eakins
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This is part of the excellent American Masters series of television programs broadcast by PBS in the USA.
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The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers. |
• Auer, Michele & Michel 1985 Encyclopedie Internationale Des Photographes de 1839 a Nos Jours / Photographers Encylopaedia International 1839 to the present (Hermance, Editions Camera Obscura) 2 volumes [A classic reference work for biographical information on photographers.]
• Beaton, Cecil & Buckland, Gail 1975 The Magic Eye: The Genius of Photography from 1839 to the Present Day (Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown & Company) p.84 [Useful short biographies with personal asides and one or more example images.]
• Lenman, Robin (ed.) 2005 The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (Oxford: Oxford University Press) [Includes a short biography on Thomas Eakins.]
• Witkin, Lee D. and Barbara London 1979 The Photograph Collector’s Guide (London: Secker and Warburg) p.128 [Long out of print but an essential reference work - the good news is that a new edition is in preparation.]
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If there is an analysis of a single photograph or a useful self portrait I will highlight it here. |
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